Thursday, 23 March 2017 16:31 |
1. How are water resources in Palestine and Israel supposed to be shared?
According to the Palestinian position, the sharing of transboundary water resources between Palestine and Israel is to be governed by international law, and its main principles.
The right to water and sanitation, an individual basic human right, has been implicitly and explicitly enshrined through international conventions such as the International Covenant on Economic and Social Rights (ICESCR), the Convention Against All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Indeed all transboundary freshwater resources must be shared “equitably and reasonably” in line with customary international law.
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Thursday, 16 March 2017 15:42 |
A U.N. agency published a report on Wednesday accusing Israel of imposing an "apartheid regime" of racial discrimination on the Palestinian people, and said it was the first time a U.N. body had clearly made the charge.
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